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...Nadia Boulanger is a spare, prim, grey-haired woman whose piercing eyes are frozen behind pince-nez. She dresces severely in black, brightened by a sunburst clip or a silver chain. When she talks, which is often, her hands are as eloquent as her speech...
...member of the Berlin Magistral recently stopping in for a Heissgetränk (hot brew) at an ancient, smoke-blackened wine cellar saw a sight that made him rub his eyes. Around a table sat a group of middle-aged men, some bemonocled, some with pince-nez, all with wide silk bands of green, white and gold across their chests. Before them stood an elaborate, gold-fringed banner with the same colors, and beside it lay a wooden mallet covered with faded signatures. Meeting here amid Berlin's ruins was a chapter of Saxo-Borussia, one of the most...
...problem in defending the Big Ditch from the overcrowded air fields within the Canal Zone. Therefore, the U.S. has retained some of the outlying air bases, pointing out that though the fighting is over, the peace treaties have not been signed. Panama's President Enrique A. Jiménez has indicated that he understands the problem. But some Panamanians are piqued by the fact that at Rio Hato (the biggest field, which lies astride the lonely transisthmian highway), they have to stop their cars whenever a U.S. plane buzzes in or out, and wait for U.S. MPs to give...
TIME [Dec. 9] asserts that Panama's President Enrique Jiménez, as part of a program of governmental economy, cut his salary $500 a year. In all justice to him, you should know that he took the top cut for all governmental employes: $500 a month, which figures...
...President Jiménez, TIME'S sincere apologies for a mistake taken from a careless Associated Press dispatch...